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The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour

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Section 37

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37. On a certain day the Lord Jesus,

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running

about

and

playing

with

the

boys

,

passed

the

shop

of

a

dyer

,

whose

name

was

Salem

;

and

he

had

in

his

shop

many

pieces

of

cloth

which

he

was

to

dye

.

The

Lord

Jesus

then

,

going

into

his

shop

,

took

up

all

the

pieces

of

cloth

,

and

threw

them

into

a

tub

full

of

indigo

.

And

when

Salem

came

and

saw

his

cloths

destroyed

,

he

began

to

cry

out

with

a

loud

voice

,

and

to

reproach

Jesus

,

saying

:

Why

hast

thou

done

this

to

me

,

O

son

of

Mary

?

Thou

hast

disgraced

me

before

all

my

townsmen

:

for

,

seeing

that

every

one

wished

the

colour

that

suited

himself

,

thou

indeed

hast

come

and

destroyed

them

all

.

The

Lord

Jesus

answered

:

I

shall

change

for

thee

the

colour

of

any

piece

of

cloth

which

thou

shalt

wish

to

be

changed

.

And

immediately

He

began

to

take

the

pieces

of

cloth

out

of

the

tub

,

each

of

them

of

that

colour

which

the

dyer

wished

,

until

He

had

taken

them

all

out

.

When

the

Jews

saw

this

miracle

and

prodigy

,

they

praised

God

.